The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-27
nonNrY POLITICS

anu dTS well cuOuBn 1u1OIAnCO " BIO
up the different candidates on the diff
ferent tickets now in the field, we have
so far refrained from giving superau-
GUS advice, or filling our columns with
laudations Of one set of men to the dis
paragement of another.
Since THE NEWS has been under its
present editorial management it has
devoted its columns more to giving its
readers all the latest news in prefer
ence to giving them gratuitous polit-
ical corporations. This course it still
proposes to pursue, believing that our |
readers patronize our paper more for
its news than for its partisan politics. |
However, on the eve of an election |
in which every voter of the county is |
or ought to be interested, it is no more
than right that we should express our /
sentiments as to which and what
course we believe is best calculated to |
benefit all, and which candidates are
the ones we believe should be selected
to guard our county finances and prop
erty, and the why's and wherefores of
our belief.
Thinking thus, all we propose just now
to do in the premises is to call attention
to the fact that at the head of our ed
itorial columns will be found
all three of the tickets, with the one we
think the best at the head, and in con-
nection with a few remarks as to why
we think it the best, ask our readers to
carefully look over each of the tickets
and, after a comparison of all the
names put forward for the different Of
fees, and also careful comparison of
what is known as to the abilily, integ-
rity and general standing as citizen,
of each, to make choice.
1t has been truthfully said that mu-
nicipaI and county elections are the
most important of all elections, as it is
in them that the foundation is laid for
the elections of the entire country.
This being the case, carelessness and
disregard in county or city election
breeds disregard when the interests of
the whole nation may be at stake.
1t took but few votes in New York
to change the entire national govern
ment of this country, and place the
reigns in the hands of set of men who
had spent some Of their best years in an
effort to destroy the government which
they now assist in ruling.
1t is urged that in county politics
here there is no necessity for drawing
party lines close, and that each and
every man should vote split ticket
that no harm can be done thereby.
This is the grand falacy whereby the
republican party of the north has al
lowed itself to be deceived and de-
feated.
The very magnammity of the north
ever since the war has been the great
weapon with which the south has
slaughtered it.
Who ever heard of municipal, county
, or an other election in the solid soutf
at which a mixed ticket composed o.
democrats and republicans alike wa
agreed upon and voted on generally
n as is done in Emporia almost ever,
e year?
/ Yet this mixed ticket business is jus
Il what is done every day in every state il
y the north. And this is just the reaso
d why the republican party so often meet
It with defeat where it might just as we
l. be victorious.
1t And this very weakness of the repul
lican party in the north must in til
end be its greatest strength, as it force
the party to put forward only its be!
~ men for Offices of trust and emolumen
W This has been exemplified in the s.
IL lections of candidates for Office on tn
p republican ticket of this county. Ii
~ deed, so much so that the partisan p
ai per started in this city for no otht
III than campaign purposes, is compelle
CO to actually concede this fact by a
knowledging its lack of ammunition
fire at the candidates, and using on
20 such as can be gagged for parties wi
are not now in Office and are not eve
90 mentioned in connection with any e
pected office.
- Still, with all these facts as regar,
- party politics staring us in the face, v
~ say to our readers that if they know
- one man whose name appears on Il
% republican ticket as a candidate for {
'" flee of whom it can be said that he
- not in every way capable of filling Il
Office to which he aspires-it is the
ON duty to vote against him.
To If the republican, or any other part
oo fails to put good, pure, clean men I
~ as candidates, it deserves defeat.
:; If there is a single candidate on t
- republican ticket against whose cha
40 acter, integrity or ability one TRUTH
10 charge can be made, we are not ava
=. ~, of it.
If as much could have been trut
al fully said in favor of either of the 9th
tickets in the field, this article wou
not have been written.
of While we are free to admit that the
an are good and competent men {
as both of the other tickets, for several ,
bo the offices to be voted for at the comiI
tv election, we think we are only CORE
IA in judgment and doing our duty whl
Iv we state that on neither of Il
n other tickets is the total of c
u pacity so complete, or the qua
III fications for the different offices to
no filed by the different candidates
in well adapted to the Office for whiC
each individual is nominated.
In other words, we wish to stat
in that, while on the democratic-an
ar also on the labor-ticket there are go(
rs and competent men for certain branc
~ ~ es of business, who would be well qua
re fed to fill certain offices, yet in SON
IN cases the particular Office for which tt
I'd nomination is made is just the one +,
I l which the candidate is poorest qualities
ld THE GRUMBLER.
e. The following is from the NAH
III Farmer, and contains such large chunl